Duuurrrrrh.

http://www.chicagotribune.com

Booting isn't done by the CPD.  It's done by the Dept. of Rev who has
specially equipped vans to find cars.

And speeding tickets are only regularly tracked on certain streets and LSD.

Michele

Scott en Aztlán <slothkills@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote:

I think he was more concerned with people getting caught "crossing the
border" then making sure the law only targets suburbanites.

Not for a while at least.

Are you serious?  One of the overwhelming causes of accidents you read about in
the paper is from some moron tuning the radio and not paying attention to what
the hell they are doing.  My good friend was hit and seriously injured from one
of these tuners who ran a red light and T-boned my friend's truck.   I can't
imagine anyone disputing that the radio is a dangerous distraction.

That said... we can't go about, banning everything that is a distraction unless
we want to make driving an incrediblely unpleasant experience.   I think its
one of those kinds of risks we just have to put up with if we want a decent
quality of life.   Just be more careful, don't give the other guy the
opportunity to involve you in his accident.

And, before banning anything, the unintended consequences should be studied to
find out what negative outcomes would occur from the ban.  Cars with no radios
cannot know, for example, that they are running straight toward a tornado, a
fact that I learned from the radio a few years ago, nor can they know where all
the backups on the freeway are locally.  The boredom from having no
entertainment in the car _might_ cause people to daydream and maybe go to sleep
at the wheel, esp. late at night.  There's too much rushing to ban things
without considering the side effects of it - ban cell phones in cars, lotsa
people (esp. me) would no longer have any use for the thing.  (Don't need it at
home, it doesn't work _inside_ the mall, can't use it in the theater where I
spend a lot of the time that I am not at home, don't use it on the floor of the
gym I belong to - I can't think of anywhere I'd make much use of it other than
in the car.  Things are so far apart here that _most_ of the time I spend away
from the house is either at work, or driving, and I have a phone at work.)
With _less_ cell phones in society, the reporting of accidents and criminal
activity might suffer, causing more harm than good overall.  

Study the consequences before banning things, that's all.

Dave Head

Of course she's serious, she's a loon.

Who the hell needs studies when you're a whack job? (not YOU, mind
you).

B-

trent

Really? Very interesting! Any references?

She did, agreed. But let's not judge by the last action that got her killed.
Apparently she was a great teacher too!

Too late!  She'd already reproduced.

Jamie

All right, who's the politically correct pussy who replaced the word
"c.nt" in the subject line with asterisks?

You would not understand it. Just go back to getting that milk for your
momma.

Too late for that, unfortunately. One wonders what sorts of things
someone who would drive around lowered crossing gates has been
teaching the children in her class, not to mention her own children.
It seems pretty certain that good judgement couldn't have been one of
them...

The woman had been talking to her husband on a cellular phone at the
time, Dennis said. She drove around lowered gates at the railroad
crossing and her SUV was hit and dragged for two blocks, he said.

Described as hardworking and dedicated to her pupils, school Principal
Donald Butler said Quintero was always friendly and outgoing.

"She was always talking," Butler said.